Flares into Darkness

Ghost Trail by Kerr Eby From the speech of then Congressman, later President, James A. Garfield given in 1868 at Arlington National Cemetery...

Greeting meatsacks, it is I -- the Robotolizer -- to once again discuss important issues about human and robot interactions. And when I say...

Get ready for a conflicted weekend with Clarissa Diokno and Mark Pelli.  

Click any image to enlarge These print ads for shaving creams and after shave products are from the early to mid 20th century. Since they ar...

The Shonan Monorail is a short (6.6km/4.1mi) Japanese commuter monorail that connects the parks and temples of Enoshima to Yokohama.  Above...

Get ready for a mezzo weekend with Sunscreen.  

Greetings meatsacks! It is I -- the Robotolizer -- returning from a long absence to once again regale my dimwitted human buddies with wisdo...

The above video givers a nice overview of how a lane in a bowling alley works. It's actually a bit more complex than I expected. I don...

Top: Vincent van Gogh Bottom: Ursus Wehrli Sweeping The Floor - George Macdonald Sweep and sweep and sweep the floor, Sweep the dust, pick u...

Get ready for a stationary weekend with Moon Sung Nam.  

Click any image to enlarge House and garden magazines are one of the staples of the publishing industry. Covering home and yard design and d...

These videos are just too cool. An English company called Gravity Industries build and markets what they call jet suits, and man -- aside fr...

Get ready for a lost weekend with The Handsome Family.  

Click any image to enlarge Warwick Goble was an illustrator of children's books and fairy tales who worked in the late 19th/early 20th c...

Some women fire up an old wood oven in a Bashkir-Tatar village, I'm not certain, but I think it is in Bashkortostan  which is in the so...

Get ready for an ogling weekend with Stan Taylor and Luke Strand.  

Click any image to enlarge These watercolors from the 19th century show clothes that were current fashions in the Ottoman empire. The works,...

  I used to do a regular series of posts called Monday morning, start of the work week blues . This post is not a return to that, but when I...

Get ready for a patient weekend with Louis Armstrong.  

There are a number of YouTube videos about the trams in Lisbon . I like this night ride. However, the videos shot during the give a better ...